The Will Rhodes Portmanteau

Hillary Clinton won W VA - not that is was any surprise, not that anything about her dwindling campaign is a surprise. She won a state that a friend of mine calls bigoted.

He also tells the story of retiree Victoria Switzer, who was working the phone bank one night:

One caller, Switzer remembers, said he couldn’t possibly vote for Obama and concluded: “Hang that darky from a tree!”

Is she wrong? It seems not, not that CNN will come out and say it - after all they need to be as PC as possible in this day and age. (more…)

Seems so - at least sport is making people happy.

George Helms’ family had the urn holding his ashes strapped onto a car at the Las Vegas Motor Speedway where it rode during practice laps. Afterward they scattered some of the NASCAR fan’s ashes over the track so he could remain part of his favorite sport.

NASCAR? That’s just retarded!

Even today - in a very violent world, we see female violence as something that is quite abnormal, but should we?

Do we blame the rise of this violence simply on the lack of good female role-models, or the massive expanse of feminism throughout the last three decades. Women claiming the equality to men and taking it too far? Acting out like men after they have been fuelled up on drugs and alcohol - this violence is still rare, but is it a matter of aping their male counterparts?

The peer group always plays a large part in it, says consultant clinical psychologist Elie Godsi, author of Violence and Society: Making Sense of Madness and Badness.

“There’s a lot more of a ‘ladette’ culture where young women are aping and mimicking the traditional behaviour young men engage in.

“So there’s a small element of that, although I wouldn’t put too much [importance] on it.”

Many young people feel alienated from their family and community, he says, so the peer group plays a big part in gang culture, causing behaviour that the individual on her own would not contemplate.

Is this the case? Just a matter of making people feel more welcome in the community and family and things will go from bad to good?

From the comments left on this story:

“Women are defined in terms of relationships.. and men are defined in terms of achievements” is possibly the most depressing thing I’ve read in a long time. If that’s really true in Britain today, no wonder young women want to punch someone.

Lizzie, London

Is Lizzie correct?

Whenever I read about the nut-cults, you know those religious cults where someone claims to be the messiah or God even - the leaders of these cults always want to get it on with virgins!

There is no turning the other cheek, praising peace and forgiveness, love of our fellow man - just a monologue of wanting to deflower the women in the flock.

Michael “said God told him that he was supposed to sleep with seven virgins,” recalled Sayer, 36. Two were to be Sayer’s daughters, then 14 and 15.

“I just told him no. … I’m not in agreement. I don’t see it’s right,” Sayer said.

And I have to ask all those who do believe in God, myself included - why would God say to someone - “Go sleep with those virgins.” Seven of them at that? Is this a US constitutional matter of being able to worship whoever you wish?

And a final question(s) - why do they all live in compounds far away from any roving eye? If this man was the messiah - wouldn’t he and his followers be out preaching the new word of God rather than trying to bed virile females?

It seems to me that it is all to do with sex. But I could be wrong.

That isn’t an open question to just anybody who reads this blog - it is a serious question about you.

Does this fit with you?

The Internet is setting a new standard for celebrity. Fame is no longer about getting “15 minutes”; it’s about becoming famous to 15 people.

So you could be famous just for being you - brings a new meaning to what fame really is, eh?

PS - there isn’t any cash involved, though - unless you get paid that is.

Certainly not what has happened in the political arena in London. The mayor, most definitely was a good win, and probably a good thing for London.

What isn’t good is the rise of the far-right. England isn’t a country of the far-right - it never was nor, hopefully, ever will be.

For the past 10 years there have been predictions that the British National Party (BNP) could achieve a major electoral breakthrough - but at the end of each election the picture has been mixed and open to interpretation.

The BNP and its supporters are cheering the success of Richard Barnbrook’s election to the Greater London Assembly, but it was a tight race - and tighter than a lot of people had feared.

But these races, as tight as they are, are indicative of what could be happening more and more - but where do the BNP get their support?

It is mostly those who feel disenfranchised by those who are in government - this being Labour now and could be the conservatives next. The conservatives are right of centre and there does seem to be an overall swing in that direction in England. So what do we all expect of England? Will she go down a road that leads not to better working conditions and jobs for those who are lacking the basic skills, jobs which have been eroded so much over the last 25 years? Factory jobs where people could earn a weekly wage and be happy with what they did.

If the BNP can make inroads into the middle-classes the problem will be much more significant - as yet they haven’t. But until the government begins to recognise that the ‘lowest of the low’ have just as many problems as their voting constituent there will be a rise of both right and left extremes.

The British government has to get back to being a government and stop trying to micromanage peoples lives. Even a protest can go completely wrong - and this may happen if the government and opposition forgets who the British people are.

England expects more from the government - and that expectation is being missed.

I love this.

All men should have their own space - well women, too. But this is about men - so ner-ner!

A man needs his cave - we always have, but somewhere along the line, probably in the 60’s someone came up with the idea that we don’t, well they were wrong.

There are rules to this cave, and those rules change with each one, if the men can accept those rules, why can’t everyone else?

I will post my rules as soon as the wife has OKed them!

Stoney’s blog!

He is a brilliant advert for those who go it alone - it could even mean that Stony has his own currency - but what would he call it?

Maybe CNN should send one of their reports to interview him - I like that idea!

You would think that this was an easy one - the answer is when you don’t have it. But is that the case?

A new law - well part of a greater law is coming up for enactment in the UK Criminal Justice and Immigration Bill - that’s how you get contentious laws passed in the UK, add them to something that isn’t related. But that is by the by.

This law deals with what you can do in your own bedroom - or, indeed, look at or watch. If you are a person(s) who are into something a lot different than the recognised ‘normality’ in the act of sex - you can be prosecuted and sent to prison. Let me give you a definition:

An act which threatens or appears to threaten a person’s life
An act which results in or appears to result in serious injury to a person’s anus, breasts or genitals

What this law addresses is BDSM or sadomasochism. (more…)

When I get into a discussion with people on the net it does get me thinking. That thinking can go from something I saw many years ago to just a day or so ago - because it springs into my mind for some or no apparent reason.

One of the reasons I write, I suppose. From jumbled essence of nothing to the written word.

But a discussion that has been ongoing on this blog - in the Guns post got me to thinking why are the Americans so scared of the world around them? Is it because of indoctrination that the whole world is against them or is it something else - that, in turn, led me to thinking about September 11th - was that the real catalyst that set this paranoia off?

I remember the day surprisingly well. The surprise is that I normally take a day like that and place in the back of my mind and usually don’t visit again - unless provoked into thinking about it. (more…)